Authorities are investigating the incident and trying to discover the baby boy’s mother. They are asking the public for any information that could help them understand the horrific discovery.

The news is especially unfortunate because of the state’s safe haven laws. Though Washington is a liberal state, it has a law that saves unborn babies, allowing new mothers “72 hours to leave a newborn baby at a fire station or emergency room with no questions asked — and no charges filed.” Safe haven laws have saved newborn babies before. In Colorado, a newborn girl was dropped off at a fire station and later adopted by a loving family, LifeNews reported.

Regarding his girlfriend’s discover of the newborn baby, Meyers says: “We feel it’s a miracle. It happened on Good Friday. I get emotional. I get emotional when I talk about it.”

The discovery brings to mind multiplereports of Planned Parenthood dumping aborted babies in landfills, showing that disregard for human life in this particular way is not just a local crime, but a common reality.